Spring arrived on the Palouse yesterday. I was driving home from the store when I suddenly felt warm. The air was humid. I wanted to drive with the window down and feel the warm wind against my face.
As I was unloading groceries from my trunk, tiny white marbles of ice started to fall from the sky. I stood in the driveway for a moment trying to remember the specific atmospheric conditions that give rise to a hail storm. Finally, I gave up and decided that it was a gift from the gods: a sign that spring is here.
This morning when I looked out the window I was surprised to discover that the snow was all gone, melted sometime in the last week. The ground was wet from a recent rain: the kind of rain that ushers in new life. I saw a rabbit wiggle out from under our patio and hop across the street.
It's so easy to get caught up in our own little lives ; we forget that life is always beginning again.
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